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Tui Tai Adventures Cruises in Fiji
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Tui Tai is certified with the Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) as an Intenational Resort Dive Boat.

Tui Tai's liveaboard itinerary will give you the chance to dive every day and explore dive sites in many pristine and remote locations.

The Tui Tai Adventure Cruise is a unique holiday designed for active travelers looking to get off the beaten path and truly experience Fiji. Each cruise combines tropical adventure and a chance to immerse yourself in the culture of Fiji.

During your adventure you will SCUBA dive on world-class dive sites, kayak, mountain bike, hike through rainforests and waterfalls, snorkel pristine, vibrant reefs, visit local villages, and more!

Tui Tai is the South Pacific’s only "Full-Service Dive Operation in Luxury-Adventure Class".

What this means is when you dive, you don’t have to touch a scuba tank. Tui Tai's crew literally put it on your back and take it off your back. And the gear? Just leave it in the dive boat and the crew deals with getting it onboard the main vessel, rinsed, and ready for your next dive.

The Tui Tai liveaboard offers diving in ten different regions, with scores of underwater environments to experience, and with an onboard Marine Biologist, Dive-Master, Dive-Instructor, and a brilliant underwater photographer on every dive.

Tui Tai cruises will get you to these far flung islands and sites in luxury, with great food, and the best amenities.

If you are already certified to dive you can bring your own dive gear or rent from Tui Tai's onboard rental supply of every piece of dive-gear you might need – all modern, perfectly maintained, and ready to go.

The gear rental price includes all or any of the following items as may be required: BCD, regulator, wet suit, mask, snorkel, fins. Tui Tai requires that all divers use Dive Computers for safe diving. If you don’t have your own, they rent high-quality UWATEC Aladdin dive computers.

The following PADI Adventure Dives are available to certified divers:

• Navigation Dive
• Deep Dive
• Night Dive
• Underwater Naturalist
• Drift Dive
• Boat Dive
• do 5 of the above dives and earn your Advanced Open Water certification

And if you are not a certified diver - DISCOVER SCUBA!

The PADI Discover Scuba Diving course, taught by Tui Tai's PADI Dive Instructor requires no prior diving experience necessary. Tui Tai provides all your equipment.

Standing in shallow water with the instructor, you are guided to bend down till you’re underwater. That’s how you become familiar with the scuba gear – and if there’s any anxiety, you just stand up.

After some brief instruction, when you and the instructor feel you’re ready, you go for a real scuba dive at an amazing dive site – with your own personal instructor by your side the whole time.

These dive cruises are perfectly matched up to then continue diving at an outer island resort stay at either Qamea Island Resort, Koro Sun Resort or Matangi Island Resort.

Choose from 7 and 5 Night Adventure Cruises, contact us for schedules and availability.

Tui Tai Cruises Diving Facts

About the Dive Operation:

• Tui Tai owns its dive operation, Mad Fish Dive Centre
• PADI Dive Boat certified, Tui Tai Adventure Cruises Ltd., PADI #S-34054
• All divemasters and dive Guides are PADI certified DiveMasters or higher

Areas Dived:

• North Fiji

About the Diving:

• 7am dive
• 10.30am dive
• 2pm dive
• 7pm night dive
• no minimum number of divers required for any dive
• shore diving not available
• maximum 6 divers per dive guide
• average 15 min. to dive sites

About the Dive Boats:

• 2 dive boats, 12 divers per boat
• boats equipped with oxygen tank and delivery, first-aid kit, VHF radio, lifejackets

Dive Groups, Dive Clubs- Group Dive Trips:

• 8 divers minimum for Group Booking
• 22 maximum divers
• contact us for details on dive group offers

Dive Instruction

• Dive Instruction Available
• Dive Instructors are on permanent staff
• Mad Fish Dive prefers diving courses to be arranged in advance, but not a requirement

Diving Courses Offered:

• PADI Discover Scuba Course
• PADI Open Water Diver
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
• PADI Underwater Naturalist
• PADI Underwater Photographer

Dive Equipment:

• Nitrox is not available
• ScubaPro rental gear available, included in some pre-paid dive packages

Special Facilities for Underwater Photographers & Videographers

• Permanent staff includes Dive Instuctors who are experienced underwater photographers; able to handle all types of camera/housing/gear.

Favorite Dive Sites:

• Somosomo/Rainbow Reef, Ringgold Atolls, Qamea Passage, Rabi/Georgia Reef, Natewa Bay

A Selection of Dive Sites:

Dive Site: "Kokoda Point"
Kokoda Point is one of Fiji's best wall dives. Crystal clear visibility and a dramatic dropoff make for a prime spot to meet pelagics: barracuda, tuna, eagle rays, sharks and more. The wall is decorated in soft corals, crinoids and large fans.One patch of the wall is covered in sea grapes, for which the site has earned its name. The wall is teaming with fish life and macro creatures.

Dive Site: "Wall Street"
The wall just off the reef wall took a couple tries to find, but it was worth the search. Pinnacles emerge from the depths, covered in soft corals and clouded by orange and purple anthias. This has been a great site for nudibranchs, flatworms and lionfish.

Dive Site: "Rainbow Passage"
One of our favorite Rainbow Reef dives in Somosomo Straits.Two bommies are wrapped by fresh currents from the Strait provided a staggering cover of lush soft-corals (purple, yellow, white, red and more).Swarms of anthias and small fish will be all around you as you drift along. White-tip reef sharks cruise along and often sleep near the edge on the sea floor. Several large camouflage groupers and maori wrasses make their homes here.

Dive Site: "The Great White Wall"
Renowned as one of Fiji’s top dive sites. Prepare to be awestruck by a steep wall that descends endlessly to the bottom, completely smothered in lush white soft coral. Off the deep edge of the wall you will find some pelagics. Often schools of batfish stop by to greet us while we drift along the wall. At the end of the dive is a deep swim-through cavern providing an exciting exit to an amazing dive.